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PROTOCOL XXIX. 



MEETING OF TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1803. 



The Tribunal assembled at 11.30 a. m., all the arbitrators being 

 present. 



Sir Charles Russell resumed his argument. 



At 1.30 the Tribunal took a reeess. 



Ou reassembling. Sir Charles Russell continued his ari;ument. 



At! p. m. tlie Tribunal adjourned to the next day at 11.30 a. m. 



Done at Paris, the 30tli of May, 1803, and signed: 



The President : AlPII. DE CoUROEL. 

 The Agent for the Vniled Siaies: JOHN W. FOSTER. 

 The Agent for Great Britain: ClIARLES II. TUPPER. 

 The Secrclari/: A. ImPEUT. 

 Translation certified to be accurate: 



A. BAILLY-BLANCIIARD, ] ri u ^ • „ 



' } Co- Secretaries. 

 H. Cunynghame, ) 



PROTOCOL XXX. 



meeting of WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1803. 



The Tribunal assembled at 11.30 a. m., all the arbitrators being- 

 present. 



Sir Charles Russell, in continuation of his argument, presented to 

 the Tribunal the ibllowing paper: 



The British Government having submitted to the arbitrators certain 

 questions of fact as involved in the clain)s for damage set iorth in the 

 schedule to the British case, pages 1 to 00, inclusive, ask for the fol- 

 lowing findings thereon, namely: 



1. That the several searches and seizures, whether of ships or goods, 

 and the several arrests of masters and crews, respectively, mentioned 

 in the said schedule, were made by the authority of the United States 

 Government. 



2. That they were made in non-territorial waters. 



3. That the several searches, seizures, condemnations, and confisca- 

 tions, whether of ships or goods, and the several arrests, fines, and 

 imprisonments, were for alleged breaches of municipal laws of the 

 United States, which alleged breaches were wholly committed on the 

 high seas outside the territorial w^aters of the United States. 



4. That the several orders mentioned in the said schedule, whereby 

 ships were prevented from pursuing their voyages, were given on the 

 high seas outside territorial waters, under the authority of the United 

 States Government and in execution of the nuinicipal laws of the 

 United States; and 



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